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androidgoogle-places-api
Ritesh
Ritesh

Reputation: 1036

How to remove search icon from PlaceAutocompleteFragment in Android

I am using PlaceAutocompleteFragment to search places. Below is my xml code

<fragment
android:id="@+id/place_source"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="40dp"
android:background="@color/colorPrimary"
android:name="com.google.android.gms.location.places.ui.PlaceAutocompleteFragment" />

I want to remove search icon which by default comes with fragment.

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Upvotes: 5

Views: 5262

Answers (5)

Akash Sarkar
Akash Sarkar

Reputation: 101

The above solutions didnt work for me as I was using 2.1.0

The ID's for this version are :

Search Icon : places_autocomplete_search_button

Clear Icon : places_autocomplete_clear_button

Edit Text : places_autocomplete_search_input

So in order to use them simply, 

autocompleteSupportFragment.getView().findViewById(R.id.places_autocomplete_search_button).setVisibility(View.GONE);

Upvotes: 2

T.For
T.For

Reputation: 31

If we have 2 autocompleteFragments, we can hide the icons like this :

autocompleteFragment_from.getView().findViewById(R.id.place_autocomplete_search_button).setVisibility(View.GONE);
autocompleteFragment_to.getView().findViewById(R.id.place_autocomplete_search_button).setVisibility(View.GONE);

Upvotes: 3

PLPellegrini
PLPellegrini

Reputation: 25

This question is a bit old, but I'll leave this here for future viewers.

While @rajat44's answer solves it when you have one PlaceAutocompleteFragment, if you have multiple you can do this:

pacf.getView().findViewById(R.id.place_autocomplete_search_button).setVisibility(View.GONE);
pacf2.getView().findViewById(R.id.place_autocomplete_search_button).setVisibility(View.GONE);

Upvotes: 1

rajat44
rajat44

Reputation: 5121

You can use this single line to get the reference of search icon :((View)findViewById(R.id.place_autocomplete_search_button)).setVisibility(View.GONE);

and this line to get the reference of EditText: ((EditText)findViewById(R.id.place_autocomplete_search_input))

Upvotes: 10

AndrewR
AndrewR

Reputation: 10889

It's not possible to customize the look of the PlaceAutocompleteFragment unfortunately but, since all it does is launch the PlaceAutocomplete activity in response to taps it's pretty easy to replicate its functionality with a UI that works for your app.

  1. Create a custom fragment (instructions).
  2. Add the UI elements you want to the fragment.
  3. Add an OnClickListener to the UI elements that starts an autocomplete Activity (as described in the API docs).

Upvotes: 0

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